Re: hmmm.

Oy vey.

Hope you land somewhere. I like your writing very much.

Johne Cook
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On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Peter T. Chattaway <
petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]> wrote:

> So, for the last two decades or so, I've been writing for (and sometimes
> editing) a Christian community newspaper.  And sometimes, in my stint as an
> editor, I was called upon to turn a particular writer's prose into something
> actually publishable.  Why did they keep giving this guy assignments?
>  Mainly because of inertia, I suppose, but also because he had once had some
> celebrity in the field that he was writing about.
>
> Anyway.  I've dialled back most of my writing these days, due to being a
> stay-at-home parent and everything (and in March, I'll be signing the kids
> up for soccer practice via the Canucks Autism Network... which means that,
> yes, I will soon be a soccer dad...), but the one gig I had been holding on
> to all this time was my monthly column for that newspaper...
>
> And then, a few months ago, the editor that I had been working with since
> 1992 resigned.  And then, a couple weeks ago, I got a phone call from the
> guy who was filling in for him, telling me that the non-profit society that
> runs the newspaper was shutting it down completely.
>
> And then, a few days ago, while discussing my final column with one of the
> soon-to-be-laid-off editors, I discovered that the-guy-who-was-filling-in is
> starting up a new "Christian lifestyles" magazine.  "But what," I asked,
> "about the *existing* lifestyles magazine," which was already being
> published by the non-profit society (and which had just changed its name,
> following the editor's resignation)?  Not the same thing, I was told.
>
> So, not to be too sensationalistic about this or anything, but there seems
> to be a sort of schism brewing... and I honestly have no idea if I'll be
> continuing with *either* side.  But the first semi-*official* thing I heard
> about this *new* lifestyles magazine came today... when one of my Facebook
> friends posted a link to the new magazine's website, which is still very
> much under construction.  And who *is* this Facebook friend of mine who
> apparently has the inside scoop on this publication, which I do not have?
>  Why, the writer who couldn't write, of course.
>
> Make of that what you will.
>
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